Newsreel Retrospective (1968-1972)
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Revolution Until Victory a.k.a. We Are the Palestinian People (Newsreel #65)
Filmed in Palestine by Newsreel, REVOLUTION UNTIL VICTORY shows the refugee camps of the Middle East, the rise of the Palestinian Liberation Movement and Israel's relationship to Western imperialism.More Information -
El Pueblo se Levanta aka The People Are Rising (Newsreel #63)
Faced with racial discrimination, deficient community services, and poor education and job opportunities, Puerto Rican communities in New York City began to address these injustices by using direct action.More Information -
Break and Enter a.k.a. Squatters (Newsreel #62)
In 1970, several hundred Puerto Rican and Dominican families reclaimed housing left vacant by the city.More Information -
The Case Against Lincoln Center (Newsreel #17)
More than 20,000 Latino families were displaced to make way for Lincoln Center, home to the Metropolitan Opera and the New York Symphony.More Information -
The Woman's Film (Newsreel #55)
Produced collectively by women, this documentary is a valuable historical document of the origins of the modern women's movement in the United States.More Information -
Black Panther a.k.a. Off the Pig (Newsreel #19)
A compelling document of the Black Panther Party leadership in 1967.More Information -
Janie's Janie (Newsreel #)
"First I was my father's Janie, then I was my Charlie's Janie, now I'm Janie's Janie." --Jane GieseMore Information -
Up Against the Wall Miss America (Newsreel #22)
This entertaining short film shows how Women's Liberation activists used guerrilla theater to raise awareness of what Miss America really represents.More Information -
The Wreck of the New York Subway (Newsreel #47)
During the winter of 1969, the New York Transit Authority increased the public transportation fee fare from 20 cents to 30 cents--a 50% increase. Infuriated riders scrambled under turnstiles and through exit doors, refusing to pay the fare.More Information -
Childcare: People's Liberation (Newsreel #56)
The film shows how community-run childcare centers are a step toward liberation, by giving parents and children a chance to develop relationships with their peers and new relationships with each other.More Information -
America a.k.a. Amerika (Newsreel #)
Against the background of the escalation of the war in Vietnam, AMERICA documents the development of the anti-war movement on the home front.More Information -
She's Beautiful When She's Angry (Newsreel #48)
This documentary provides an in-depth examination of protest activities surrounding the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.More Information -
People's War (Newsreel #43)
"People's War" records the mobilization and participation of the Vietnamese people in their country's fight against colonialism and foreign military aggression.More Information -
My Country Occupied (Newsreel #151)
In this moving film, the personal testimonies of Guatemalan Indians, peasants, and guerrillas are dramatized to provide the narration for a powerful overview of the history of U.S. destabilization of democracy in Central America.More Information -
Mill-In a.k.a. The Christmas Mill-In (Newsreel #6)
To raise the consciousness of New Yorkers, anti-war demonstrators took to the streets on fashionable Fifth Avenue on Christmas Eve.More Information -
Berkeley Rebellion (Newsreel #20)
Newsreel's short film shows two days of demonstrations in Berkeley over the issue of "the streets belong to the people" and the decision of the City Council to close off Telegraph Avenue for the 4th of July, 1968. This film features scenes of members of the Young Socialist Alliance, including Peter Camejo, demonstrating their support for the French student movement of May 1968.More Information -
Garbage a.k.a. Garbage Demonstration (Newsreel #5)
During a prolonged garbage collector's strike in New York City, a group of youths from the Lower East Side of Manhattan decide to use the situation to make a political statement.More Information -
Felix Revolts a.k.a. Felix the Cat (Newsreel #)
Felix the Cat goes on strike!More Information -
Anti-Draft in Boston: Boston Draft Resistance Group a.k.a. BDRG (Newsreel #7)
A profile of a grassroots anti-war group in Boston, this short film documents some of the tactics and activities used by draft resistance groups across the country during the Vietnam War.More Information -
Yippie (Newsreel #)
Filmed as the official statement of the Youth International Party, this film is as freewheeling and irreverent as the Yippies themselves.More Information -
Pig Power (Newsreel #23)
As students take to the streets in New York and Berkeley, the state violence that follows illustrates Chicago Mayor Daley's thesis that the police are there "to preserve disorder".More Information -
High School Rising (Newsreel #38)
An analysis of how the schools by using the tracking system, exploit and oppress people in terms of class origins and how students can begin to organize.More Information -
Army a.k.a. Army Film (Newsreel #36)
Shot in 1969, this film documents the building anger of draftees in the U.S. military and the growth of the anti-war movement within the military.More Information -
Summer '68 (Newsreel #505)
This documentary provides an in-depth examination of protest activities surrounding the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.More Information -
Resist - With Noam Chomsky a.k.a. Chomsky-Resist (Newsreel #1)
This short film offers a rare look at Noam Chomsky in the late 1960s as he speaks candidly about the war in Vietnam and articulates critiques that have an eerie resonance in the present day.More Information -
Community Control (Newsreel #24)
In 1968, under intensive community pressure from Black and Latino communities, the State of New York chose three New York City school districts to become part of an experiment in community-run education.More Information -
Pa Bell Go to Hell (Newsreel #)
In April 1970, telecom workers from multiple unions across New York City engaged in a wildcat strike to secure better pay and improve working conditions.More Information -
Union a.k.a. Oil Strike a.k.a. Richmond Oil Strike (Newsreel #25)
January '69, oil workers in Northern California struck, and for the first time, students at San Francisco State and University of California were asked to join the union in the struggle.More Information -
The Haight a.k.a. The Streets Belong to the People (Newsreel #21)
The San Francisco Haight community fights in the streets to defend their culture against brutal police oppression.More Information -
Only the Beginning (Newsreel #59)
In April 1971, thousands of G.I.'s came to Washington, D.C., to protest the Vietnam War.More Information -
Lincoln Hospital (Newsreel #35)
When a city-run health clinic in the South Bronx fails to meet the needs of the city, local residents and health workers force a strike and then run the clinic themselves.More Information -
I.S. 201 and Report from Newark (Newsreel #10)
Nine months after the riot. Malcolm X Memorial Services held at I.S. 201 in New York, March 1968, and scenes from Newark, March 1968.More Information -
Either Or (Newsreel #)
A short newsreel showing the grassroots organizing efforts of the East Coast Panthers as they attempted to implement community-based social programs while simultaneously battling severe harassment from local and federal authorities.More Information -
Riot-Control Weapons (Newsreel #9)
A visual presentation of some of the weapons that the police were using in uprisings around the country in the late 60s.More Information -
Anti-Draft in Boston: Resist and the New England Resistance a.k.a. Resist-Resistance (Newsreel #8)
This film gives a general outline of the kinds of work being done in The Boston-Cambridge area by National Resist and the New England Resistance.More Information -
R.O.T.C. (Newsreel #34)
An anti-ROTC film with data demonstrating university complicity with the military, what that military is used for and why the supposedly neutral universities want to keep ROTC on campus.More Information -
A Meat-Cooperative a.k.a 6th Street Meat Club (Newsreel #11)
Formed on the Lower East Side of New York to side step high prices, poor quality, and weight cheating of local supermarkets.More Information -
Fuera Yanqui (Newsreel # )
This film provides a short history of the Dominican Republic and an analysis of the control exerted on its economic structure by U.S. interests.More Information -
Four Americans (Newsreel #3)
Anti-war statement by four American soldiers who deserted the Army during the Vietnam War in 1967.More Information -
Catonsville Nine (Newsreel #18)
Filmed in Baltimore during the support demonstrations for the nine catholics who were on trial for napalming the 1-A Draft files in Catonsville, Maryland.More Information -
Bobby Seale a.k.a. Interview with Bobby Seale (Newsreel #44)
Bobby Seale, a member of the Black Panthers, talks about his treatment as a political prisoner and his involvement in the Black Liberation and anti-war movements.More Information -
139X (Newsreel #22)
Berkeley students organized a mass sit-in and a building take-over after the State Regents refused to allow Elridge Cleaver to teach Political Science 139X for credit.More Information -
Isle of Youth
The daily activities of young Cubans—their work, recreation, and education—as they participate in converting the Isle of Pines from a prison colony to an experiment to create a new society.More Information -
Venceremos Brigade (Newsreel #)
A film shot in Cuba in 1970-1971 about two brigades of 500 Americans that went to Cuba in order to show support by breaking the blockade and to help with the sugar harvest of ten million tons.More Information -
San Francisco State: On Strike a.k.a. San Francisco State Sit In (Newsreel #26)
A documentary of the now famous San Francisco State strike of 1968-69.More Information -
Make It Real (Newsreel #)
MAKE IT REAL documents a protest agains the first Earth Day.More Information -
Herman B. Ferguson, Candidate for U.S. Senate (Newsreel #15)
A film about Herman Ferguson, a candidate for the U.S. Senate on the Freedom and Peace ticket in the 1968 election.More Information
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